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Jul 24 2014
Perspective
Impact Investors Dive Into Oceans
Impact investing—investment dollars designed to deliver both financial and social or environmental returns—is being used by investors to deliver social progress and secure a worthwhile economic return on their investment. The …
Jul 01 2014
Assessing Impact Investing: Five Doorways for Evaluators
Demand for evaluation services is growing in the impact investing industry. Yet, much of the evaluation community remains unaware of the industry and its performance assessment requirements. This paper proposes …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Jun 19 2014
Perspective
What We've Learned About Program-Related Investments
In May, The Rockefeller Foundation released a new book—"The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good." In it, Judith Rodin and Margot Brandenburg examine …
Jun 12 2014
Perspective
5 Key Takeaways from the Shared Value Summit
In 2012, The Rockefeller Foundation's Impact Investing initiative provided a grant to support the launch of the Shared Value Initiative (SVI). Founded by FSG, SVI is a global community of …
May 21 2014
Trends in Seed-Stage Social Enterprises
Echoing Green, a seed-stage funder of social entrepreneurs for over twenty-five years, has disbursed US 33 million in funding and strategic assistance to nearly 600 emerging leaders around the world …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
May 21 2014
Perspective
Trends in Seed-Stage Social Enterprises
This post was co-authored by Min Pease, Impact Investing Manager at Echoing Green. In 2007, we selected Felix Brandon-Lloyd as an Echoing Green Fellow. Felix's organization, Skill-Life, was a game-based platform …
May 08 2014
Perspective
Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale
Achieving scale is a challenge as old as the field of social enterprise itself, one whose wide-reaching implications cut to the heart of what it means to make meaningful impact. …
May 08 2014
Beyond the Pioneer: Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale
Achieving scale for inclusive industries is a challenge as old as the field of social enterprise itself, one whose wide-reaching implications cut to the heart of what it means to …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation